Hanson Lyrics

Album: 3 Car Garage: The Independent Recordings '95 '96

Soldier Lyrics

Can I hear the story about the one legged soldier?

 Please?

 And can you tell me the story of the soldier?

 Please?

 One more time

 Or I'll knock your nose off

 

 Not so long ago in a toy room not so far away

 Lived a boy who had so many toys

 And he didn't know what to do with them all

 With them all, with them all

 Well his favorite of all the toys

 were the tin soldiers, the tin soldiers

 And the one that he loved the most

 was the one with the missing leg

 

 At night the toys would come alive

 Or that's how the story is told

 And there they met the soldier

 With the missing leg

 And the ballerina with the heart of gold

 At night they would share each others dreams

 Under the stars shining bright

 But they were too shy

 To speak of love, to speak of love

 

 One day the boy sat them on the windowsill

 To watch for the enemy coming over the hill

 But when the wind it blew

 It knocked him into the street

 And the boys from the town they said

 Won't you look at the one legged soldier

 Let's stick him in a boat and send him far away

 'Cause we can't find a use

 For a soldier with a missing leg

 

 And he was lonely, so lonely for a friend

 And he was lonely, so lonely for a friend

 He was so lonely

 Yeah

 

 As he floated past a river rat

 On his homemade boat

 Well the boat began to sink

 And he sank to the bottom of the river

 He got swallowed by a fish

 Caught by a fisherman

 Sold to the family of the boy who had the toys

 

 And the cook said look at the one legged soldier

 It looks just like the one we lost the other day

 Could this be the boy's tin soldier with the missing leg?

 

 But he was lonely, so lonely for a friend, oh

 And he was lonely, so lonely for a friend

 He was so lonely, yeah

 Oh yeah so lonely, oh yeah

 

 What about the ballarina?

 

 As he sat on the mantle piece to dry from the river

 The ballerina who held his heart sat at his side

 And when they got up to dance with each other

 She fell by the fire blazing bright

 When he jumped to save her from the flames

 Their bases began to melt into one and the same

 And now they share each other's destiny

 Together forever they will be

 

 And they are no longer lonely for a friend

 And they are no longer lonely for a friend

 No longer lonely, yeah

 no longer lonely

 Whoa whoa

 Yeah

 Whoa

 No longer lonely, yeah

 

 Well not so long ago in a toy room not so far away

 Lived a boy who had so many toys

 And he played with them all

 With them all, with them all

 Well he had a ballerina and a one legged soldier

 stuck together at the base

 And they share each others destiny

 as they sit on top of the mantel place

 

 It's the story of the one legged soldier

 The story of the one legged soldier

 The story of the tin soldier

 with the missing leg...